Bhubaneswar: Crime Branch (CB) Odisha Police arrested three cyber criminal gang members who had contacted 4.38 people lakh from their operations in Bhubaneswar, a rented building, in the past about a month to get their bank details with the pretext of updating KYC details (Know your customers).
CB has ensured at least 171 complaints submitted against gangs, indigenous Jharkhand, in 20 states.
CB hasn’t confirmed the amount of money tricked by the gang.
But it will run to Crores, the police said.
Additional Director General of Police (ADG) (CB) Sanjeeb Panda said the alley sent a bulk message and made a telephone call to people who identified themselves as bank officials.
Gang will tell their target that the latter needs to update their KYC in the link given, others will stop banking services.
As soon as people will respond and fill the details in the link given by them, they will get all the banking details.
They will call them to get a one-time password (OTPS) from customers who do not suspect and transfer money from their account to a digital payment platform like Google Pay, Paytm Phone.
Panda said the gang used at least 33 different cellphone numbers.
They have bought a list of telephone numbers from doubting sources and cellphones and numbers that are often changed using SIMs activated to escape the supervision of the police.
The police said the gang invited the police’s attention on their unusual luxury lifestyle in a building in the Rasulgarh area in the city: the men in their 20s use their expensive cellphones and other electronic gadgets, roaming in a large rental car and ordering food after They took a rental house on December 28.
Three arrests have been identified as Pradhum Mandal (20), Krishna Mandal (19), both native to Girdih Regency, and Chetlal Mandal of Dhanbad District.
The police continued to guard to capture more members with the same gang.
The three are part of a larger group that continues to move quickly from one part of the country to another to escape the police’s eyes in their cybercrime, said ADG (Crime Branch) Panda.
The police have confiscated around a dozen sets of cellphones, two laptops, a tablet other than some debit cards from them.
Panda said it was important for people to realize that banking messages and insurance did not come from any telephone number.
The sender will always be uppercase because they come from the code platform.
People should not respond to requests related to banks from telephone numbers to escape from being victims of Cybercrime, he said.